Man arrested for tweeting he'd 'shoot someone' for 100 retweets

A 20-year-old Los Angeles man has been arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats for allegedly tweeting he would "shoot someone walking" if 100 people retweeted him, according to multiple media reports.

The Los Angeles Police Department linked a man identified as Dakkari Dijon McAnuff to the Twitter account @StillDMC on Wednesday, not long after it had posted the supposed threat with a picture of a rifle aimed at a dark street, The Los Angeles Times reported.

LAPD then tracked him to a downtown Los Angeles address. They found an air rifle, later determined to be the one in the photo, but not a gun, Reuters reported.

From Friday's Reuters report:

Police said the air rifle, which shoots pellets or BBs using compressed air, could still cause injury and pose a threat.

"It still alarms people, it looks lethal," Los Angeles police spokesman Richard French said. "It's no different than someone who walks into a store with a fake butcher knife. It could be made of rubber, but that still scares people."

McAnuff was jailed on suspicion of making criminal threats and is being held on $50,000 bail. He has not been formally charged yet, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Worse still? KTLA reported that the same Twitter account had also shared a photo of "a bloodied man laying in the street in front a truck with flashing lights" with words that read, “Man Down. Mission Accomplished.”

McAnuff's Twitter account has been taken down. According to Reuters, another Twitter page listed under McAnuff's name popped up after his arrest and was home to a tweet saying, "This account is being managed by Dakkari's close friends. This will be his new account." Another post and a retweet there said the incident that led to McAnuff's arrest was a "prank," Reuters said.